Heal the sick who are there, and tell them, ‘God’s Kingdom has come near to you.’
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Heal the sick who are there, and tell them, ‘God’s Kingdom has come near to you.’
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and heale the sicke that are theare and saye vnto them: the kyngdome of God is come nye vpon you.
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And heale the sicke that are there, and say vnto them, The kingdome of God is come neere vnto you.
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Passages linked to Luke 10:9 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Matthew 3:2 “Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!”
- John 3:5 Jesus answered, “Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born of water and spirit, he can’t enter into God’s Kingdom.
- Matthew 10:7-8 As you go, preach, saying, ‘The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!’ Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, and cast out demons. Freely you received, so freely give.
- Luke 10:11 ‘Even the dust from your city that clings to us, we wipe off against you. Nevertheless know this, that God’s Kingdom has come near to you.’
- Luke 17:20-21 Being asked by the Pharisees when God’s Kingdom would come, he answered them, “God’s Kingdom doesn’t come with observation; neither will they say, ‘Look, here!’ or, ‘Look, there!’ for behold, God’s Kingdom is within you.”
- Acts 28:7-10 Now in the neighborhood of that place were lands belonging to the chief man of the island, named Publius, who received us, and courteously entertained us for three days. The father of Publius lay sick of fever and dysentery. Paul entered in to him, prayed, and laying his hands on him, healed him. Then when this was done, the rest also who had diseases in the island came and were cured. They also honored us with many honors, and when we sailed, they put on board the things that we needed.
- Mark 6:13 They cast out many demons, and anointed many with oil who were sick, and healed them.
- Acts 28:31 preaching God’s Kingdom, and teaching the things concerning the Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness, without hindrance.
- Daniel 2:44 “In the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which will never be destroyed, nor will its sovereignty be left to another people; but it will break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it will stand forever.
- Matthew 4:17 From that time, Jesus began to preach, and to say, “Repent! For the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.”
- Mark 4:30 He said, “How will we liken God’s Kingdom? Or with what parable will we illustrate it?
- Luke 9:2 He sent them out to preach God’s Kingdom and to heal the sick.
- John 3:3 Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see God’s Kingdom.”
- Acts 28:28 “Be it known therefore to you, that the salvation of God is sent to the nations, and they will listen.”
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 9 And heal the sick that are therein, and…
9 And heal the sick that are therein, and say unto them, The kingdom of God is come nigh unto you.
Ver. 9. See Mat 3:2; Mat 4:17.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And heal the sick that are therein,.... Of all…
And heal the sick that are therein,.... Of all their bodily diseases, which would not only show their power and warrant, theft mission and commission, but also their goodness and beneficence to men; and would be a sufficient return for what they ate and drank:
and say unto them; not only to the sick that are healed, and those in the house in which they were, but to all the inhabitants of the city;
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the kingdom of God is come nigh unto you: the Gospel dispensation, the kingdom of the Messiah, and even the Messiah himself, as might be concluded from the miracles they wrought; and thus by their ministry and works, were they to go before Christ, and prepare his way.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 9. The kingdom of God is come nigh…
Verse 9. The kingdom of God is come nigh unto you.] εφ υμας, is just upon you. This was the general text on which they were to preach all their sermons. See it explained, Mt 3:2.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 9. The kingdom of God is come nigh unto…
9. The kingdom of God is come nigh unto you] So that our Lord’s last messages resembled His first preaching, Mat_4:17.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (9) The kingdom of God is come nigh unto…
(9) The kingdom of God is come nigh unto you.—Here again the form of the words is peculiar to St. Luke. This was to be the burden of those who, as preachers, were, in the strictest sense, the heralds of the great King.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain And heal the sick that are therein. These were…
And heal the sick that are therein. These were strangely great powers to confer upon poor weak men men, too, only in the very dawn of faith and their naive surprise and joy (see ver. 17) show how little they believed in their possession of such powers, even after their Master"s words announcing to them the gift. But this prodigality of miraculous energy was needful then. The first beginning of so stupendous a work as laying securely the ground stories of Christianity what Renan, with all his enmity to revealed religion, calls "l"evenement capital de l"histoire du monde required this special aid from another sphere.
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The Biblical Illustrator 1887 · Public Domain The kingdom of God is come nigh unto you
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The kingdom of God is come nigh unto you
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Nearness to the kingdom
This is a part of the discourse which Christ gave to His disciples when they were going forth to preach under His ministration.
Their message was, The kingdom of God is come nigh unto you. They were Jews in Jewry. They were preaching to their own countrymen--especially in Galilee; and this was a part of their message: the approach of the kingdom of God to all those that heard. Nothing more striking than the spiritual insight of our Lord. What is spiritual insight? As it existed in our Master, it was a perception of developed and perfect forms of morality and religion as constituent elements of human life in the broadest statement. It included--
1. A far more exalted idea of right and wrong than has been developed by human society.
2. A perception of character and conduct far more exalted than any that ordinary life develops.
3. A perception of the whole sphere of man. To Him life was a unit, and the life beyond was a part of it. Beyond all darkness He saw life and man in their higher relations, and in their possibilities. This higher spiritual condition, this perfectness of human nature in its aggregate emotions, now and hereafter, He called The kingdom; The new kingdom; The kingdom of heaven; The kingdom of God; and it was this that He told His disciples to preach when they went abroad. Whenever outward circumstances brought men to a place where the influences that acted upon them tended to develop their higher nature, and carry them forward along the path of perfectibility, or where their state of mind tended to make them perceptive of truths which at other times had little power with them, or where they were by outward things made sensible to things insensible, lifting them to the relation of the heavenly life, then He spoke of them as being near the kingdom of God. They were in a condition out of which should easily and naturally come spiritual development. What were some of those times?
What may we gather in regard to them from a general inspection of Christs ministry, and of His teachings to the people, and from our own experiences?
1. Times of general religious interest in communities bring the kingdom of God very near to men.
2. Any revelation to a mans consciousness of his exceeding need of change, of development, of exaltation; any influence which shall strike through a man, giving him a discriminating power by which he can separate between right and wrong, between better and worse, between good and better--any such revelation or influence brings him near to the kingdom of heaven.
3. Anything that brings to the personal consciousness and experience of a man a sense of his degraded condition may be said to bring the kingdom of God near to him.
4. Anything that reveals to a man the reality of his whole estate, and shows him a higher and supernal life, and gives him a consciousness of the stern, terrific danger that threatens him, is bringing him to the border of Gods kingdom.
5. All the perceptions of concrete goodness which men gain, and which strike into their mind, bring them near to the kingdom of heaven.
6. All experiences of the unsatisfying condition of earthly life, are, or may be, instruments of bringing men to the very border of the kingdom of God.
7. Any cause of thought in ourselves, or any cause of thought in others brought to bear upon us, which opens clearly the nature of manhood, or the possibilities of the future endless development of human life, brings men not far from the kingdom of God. (H. W. Beecher.)
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 10:9 The same mission was given to the Twelve…
10:9 The same mission was given to the Twelve (see 9:1). • Heal the sick: Healing was a sign of salvation (Isa 29:18-19; 35:5); it was physical evidence that the Kingdom of God was present (see study note on Luke 7:22).
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